Film scholar and professor Dr. Hamid Naficy will give a lecture at Rice Cinema at the festival at the end of the month, and was himself on faculty when the festival first launched.

Additionally, six films—including Nafas, Tehran Taboo, and Sadaf Fouroughi’s coming-of-age film Ava—are being specifically highlighted for being stories that were either composed by or heavily center on Iranian women. These three films will screen on the 19th and 20th of January.

Cover: An image from Sadaf Foroughi’s coming-of-age film, Ava, which screens on Saturday, Jan. 20, 2018 during the Houston Iranian Film Festival at the Museum of Fine Art Houston.

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